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The cup has an original wood stand. A letter from Miss Rose Wong at the B. Altman & Co., sent to Dr. Kramer on August 15, 1940 (found in Kramer's box 5, file #13) giving information on the piece. She wrote, \"It is a Ch'ien Lung piece, made of a celadon jade, more grayish than white in color. There are lotus fruit carved all over the sides of the cup. Its size is about 5 ½ inches long and 3 ½ inches wide, and the price is $19.50, marked down from $75.00\"."},{"label":"Genre","value":["Artifacts"]},{"label":"Object Location","value":"J.3"},{"label":"Date","value":"D:00 M:00 Y:1522 - D:00 M:00 Y:1644"},{"label":"Date Original","value":"16th-17th century CE (1522-1644 CE)"},{"label":"Era","value":["Attributed to the Ming dynasty"]},{"label":"Measurement","value":"Height: 4.6 cm (approximate); Width: 9.8 cm (approximate)"},{"label":"Medium","value":["Celadon nephrite with some extensive brownish discoloration, perhaps due to the calcification of the stone, medium translucency, moderately polished.","Other stones"]},{"label":"Country of Origin","value":["China"]},{"label":"Description","value":"This natural boulder carving represents a libation cup, part of the altar accoutrements in ceremonies. This cup retains the shape of a boulder. Notice the way the jade carver treats the stone form. By using the full natural shape and texture of the jade boulder, he adopts the protruding angular surface of its wide and rough base to fashion it into an impressive openwork handle. He also takes advantage of the top smooth part of the boulder to form the egg-shaped cup. Stanley Nott referred to this method as a \" cubist tendency,\" which has initially been manifested in jade carving since the Tao-Kuang period (mid Qing dynasty). According to him, this trend of cutting has become typical of the twentieth century artifact. However, earlier during the late Ming, many grotesque carvings of incense burners, animal carvings, and libations cups similar to this one had already appeared. This epoch was a time of social instability, uncertainty, and disintegration that was clearly reflected in the quality and style of art, and more specifically, of jade carvings. Jade carvings lost the intricacy of decoration characteristic of their predecessors. In this case, while the cup is undecorated, its bold pierced relief carving handle carries an uncharacteristic, elaborated design of sprigs intertwined with fruit and flower motifs. The combination of these motifs, if designed on the same object, was rarely in direct harmony with the original symbolic meanings. The jade carver peculiarly used a discordant mixture of geometric, incised patterns on these fruits such as the Millet, the tile or Network, the Triangle, the Honeycomb, and the Octagonal patterns. The leaves are carved in deep-cut relief. Every element is stiff and unrefined; there is very little movement or sense of liveliness in this carving. The impressive shape of the cup, the elaborate design of the handle, and the overall grotesque quality imply the emblematic essence of praise and signify, as a statement about the owner, important social status. Typically, jade objects of the late Ming epoch appeared in a purer and less refined type of nephrite, generally grey but occasionally mottled with brown like this cup. In this case, the natural alteration in the original texture of jade and the action of fire during the quarry of jade boulders may have caused the likely calcification of jade, apparently shown on several crack lines that form a gradual expending brownish stain on the surface of this cup. The dating of this vessel is problematic. In her letter to Dr. Kramer, Miss Rose Wong confirmed that this cup was a Qianlong piece (see Kramer's note below). Her information is backed by Nott's reference to the carving as a \" cubist tendency.\" Suppose Wong's and Nott's statement were viable, this cup would come later, around the beginning of the Qing period. Nonetheless, based on the above stylistic analyses, the aesthetic character of the jade, the carving technique, the texture and color of this particular nephrite, as well as the flora and fruits motifs, this libation cup fits perfectly to the later part of the Ming period (between 1522-1644 A.D.)."},{"label":"Title","value":"Libation cup"},{"label":"Rights","value":"Materials available through GettDigital encompass a wide range of works, many of which are in the public domain. However, some items may still be protected by copyright or other intellectual property rights. Users are responsible for determining the copyright status of materials and ensuring compliance with all applicable laws when reproducing or publishing these works. Items in our GettDigital Collections are for educational use. For assistance in understanding rights, obtaining permissions, or requesting files for publication or research purposes, please contact us at <a href=\"www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist\">www.gettysburg.edu/special-collections/ask-an-archivist</a>"},{"label":"Reference URL","value":"http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll6/id/112"}],"description":"Libation cup","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/a089c8a2-9f55-43fe-aab7-8b1cee41c2eb/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"gaa_jade-libation-cup_111","height":384,"width":576,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/c35c72f1-07da-4421-a4a6-0cc9f9472222/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/c35c72f1-07da-4421-a4a6-0cc9f9472222","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1,2]}]},"height":384,"width":576},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/a089c8a2-9f55-43fe-aab7-8b1cee41c2eb/canvas/_1","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"gaa_jade-libation-cup_111"},{"label":"Title","value":"Left"},{"label":"Reference URL","value":"http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll6/id/111"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/c35c72f1-07da-4421-a4a6-0cc9f9472222/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}},{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/a089c8a2-9f55-43fe-aab7-8b1cee41c2eb/canvas/_2","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"gaa_libation-cup_10","height":384,"width":576,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/abb20888-9325-41f5-8595-1b80720593cb/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/abb20888-9325-41f5-8595-1b80720593cb","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json"},"height":384,"width":576},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/a089c8a2-9f55-43fe-aab7-8b1cee41c2eb/canvas/_2","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"gaa_libation-cup_10"},{"label":"Title","value":"Right"},{"label":"Reference URL","value":"http://cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4016coll6/id/110"}]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/abb20888-9325-41f5-8595-1b80720593cb/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/c35c72f1-07da-4421-a4a6-0cc9f9472222/full/300,300/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/gettysburg/iiif/logo"}